The AWS Backup gateway appliance is

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VMware Cloud on AWS with AWS Backup Integration available as a VMware virtual appliance. This
appliance communicates with the vCenter
Protecting virtual machines (VM) running on VMware Cloud on AWS using AWS Backup and the AWS Backup public service
endpoint for backup and restores. Deploy
AWS Backup gateway in Software Defined
Data Center (SDDC) vCenter on a customer
created network segment.
AWS Cloud
Register AWS Backup gateway in the
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VMware Cloud on AWS account (managed Customer AWS account customer-owned AWS account where
by VMware) backup resources are managed. When the
gateway is registered, add the vCenter to
AWS Backup service the gateway.
Region
6 AWS recommends updating vCenter
VMware Cloud on AWS VPC 8 3 resolution to “Private DNS lookup” to keep
the communication between vCenter and
5 7 AWS Backup gateway private. Note that
this is optional; it is also possible to use
this solution with vCenter resolution to
Internet public domain name system (DNS).
gateway
AWS Backup 2 Backup plan
management plane
AWS Backup gateway communicates with
Management Compute 4 vCenter over the compute gateway.
gateway gateway AWS Backup
public service AWS Backup gateway communicates with
4 endpoint 5 AWS Backup public service endpoints over
AWS Backup Backup vault
Customer Workloads the internet gateway.
gateway
NSX AWS Backup vault
vCenter The traffic traversing from the AWS
3 Edge storage 6
AWS Backup gateway
1 plane Backup gateway over the internet
gateway to the AWS Backup public service
endpoints is encrypted.
Backup restore
NSX
The AWS Backup public service endpoint
7 communicates with the AWS Backup
management and storage plane through
Amazon Elastic Compute Cloud (Amazon EC2) AWS Backup service endpoints. AWS
bare metal Backup public service, the management
plane, and the storage plan is managed by
AWS.
Create and manage the backup plan and
Reviewed for technical accuracy 2/17/2022
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